Re: [Evolution] Evo Addressbook + OpenLDAP-2.1.3

[Dieter Kluenter <dieter incode com>]

Tony Earnshaw <tonni billy demon nl> writes:

> man, 2002-10-07 kl. 11:10 skrev Dieter Kluenter:
>
> > I'm using OpenLDAP-2.1.3 cyrus-sasl-2.1.6 and MIT KRB5-1.2.5 thus
> > requiring strong authentication by means of GSSAPI, that is, no simple
> > bind to the ldap server.
>
> I've gone from 2.1.3 thru 2.1.4 to 2.1.5.

I started with 1.2.11 through 2.0.12, 2.0.25 to 2.1.3

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> Don't know what basis Linux you use (or is it Solaris?), but try to
> compile GQ for Gnome (compiling lets you add features Red Hat rpms don't
> have, such as TLS and drag 'n drop), use it extensively and you'll learn
> by trial and error. Specially with a 'tail -f' on the -d 256 slapd log
> output.

My system originally was SuSE-Linux-6.3 but has been permanently
updated to todays standards.
I'm quite happily using ldapbrowser, gq-0.6 allways exits with errors
and i'm to lazy to check for reasons. :-)

> > Is evolution able to do a strong bind to the ldap server by means of
> > GSSAPI?
>
> Not at the moment - there's no strong authentication at all possible
> with 1.0.8, not even TLS-based binds (that's supposed to be available on
> later versions), but wishes have been expressed before.

OK, now here is an additional vote.
> The trouble is, that you can count the LDAP Evo users who subscribe to
> this list on the badly mangled fingers of one hand. So, welcome, Dieter,
> and thanks for adding a new voice to the few.

Thanks fore your warm wellcome. :-)

As I understand, there is, no suitable addressbook available to manage
strong authentication and creation of own addressbook databases. :-(
Probabely except for phpgroupware and IMP/turba, which i haven't tried
yet.

-Dieter

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